The Healer Demands Payment!

Chapter 14

The young shopkeeper moved swiftly. In an instant, he already took out a box containing the jackdaw.

"Excuse me." Meng Qi quickly waved her hand: "The price is too high. I can't afford it now."

The man was stunned. For a moment, he looked at the calm expression on Meng Qi's face and couldn't help laughing: "It doesn't matter, Fellow Daoist may check the item first." The shopkeeper opened the box enthusiastically.

Inside the wooden box, about ten strands of jackdaw grass were placed neatly. The color was pure black, shaped like jackdaw feathers with many small villi on its surface. In addition, after a closer look, Meng Qi could also see several silver spots occasionally flashing on its surface.

"Our sect is the Shencao Pavilion from the Northern Realm." The man introduced: "If Fellow Daoist needs other herbs from the Northern Realm, you can come to our shop." A little proudly, he continued: "We have a lot of herbs and medicinal ingredients. Our products are the best in the whole Northern Realm."

"I see." Meng Qi nodded. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." The disciple of Shencao Pavilion carefully put away the box. He then looked at Meng Qi. The girl seemed to be less than twenty, and her bearing was elegant. Her facial features were also very delicate. She had pretty brows and nose, and there were bravery and calmness rarely found on the normal girls.

Shencao Pavilion could open such a pharmacy in Beyond The Heaven. They naturally were one of the largest medical sects in the Northern Realm. The shopkeeper couldn't help but wonder: "Why is Fellow Daoist looking for jackdaw grass?"

"I read the records about jackdaw grass in a book." Meng Qi certainly wouldn't tell a stranger about the little white tiger, "So I wanted to buy one to study its medicinal properties."

"Pfft..." The young man couldn't help laughing. Although he worked as a shopkeeper at a pharmacy inside Beyond The Heaven, he was actually one of his sect's Golden Core cultivators.

"Really, your action seems to be one of us." The shopkeeper pondered, "So, this jackdaw grass, if you still want to buy it, I'll give you the price of eighteen sixth-grade spirit stones. After fellow Daoist has enough money, come and find me again."

"Okay, thank you." Meng Qi nodded. Even at the discounted price of eighteen sixth-grade spirit stones, her fund was still far from sufficient, and she still didn't have the idea of how to start earning.

Meng Qi looked around. This pharmacy was relatively large in size, and it seemed that the shopkeeper wasn't merely bragging. The Shencao Pavilion really looked like to be quite an authority. She estimated that the medicinal materials that could be sold in Beyond The Heaven should not low-grade. So, this shop's wares could not be cheap.

"If Fellow Daoist doesn't have enough spirit stones at the moment, we also accept bartering." The shopkeeper said. He took quite a liking to this beautiful girl who never lost her calm look. Although Beyond The Heaven didn't set a minimum level of cultivation to be allowed to enter its gate, the cultivators who could access this place generally weren't weak. As far as this shopkeeper knew, the weakest cultivator that could come to Beyond The Heaven was at least around the fifth or sixth realm of the Golden Core stage.

Cultivators of Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stage grew old normally at the same rate as non-cultivators. Their aging speed would considerably get slower after entering the Golden Core stage and revert back to normal after ten years in the Golden Core stage. In short, if a cultivator wanted to keep their appearance unchanged by aging, they at least had to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

In other words, a cultivator's appearance would be roughly the same as when they entered the Golden Core stage. Of course, if a cultivator had limited talent, unable to break through the Nascent Soul stage after ten years, they would eventually grow old.